jluastro / PopSyCLE

Population Synthesis for Compact-object Lensing Events
https://popsycle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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BH kicks proportional to mass #40

Open caseylam opened 2 years ago

caseylam commented 2 years ago

Right now, the BH kicks are randomly drawn from a maxwellian.

There is no distinguishing the kick on a 5 Msun BH vs a 50 Msun BH.

Seems weird?

Maybe something more physical that scales with the neutron star kick based on mass?